A prosecutor on Friday
requested five life sentences in the second trial into the 1992
assassination of crusading anti-Mafia magistrate Giovanni
Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo and police officers Rocco
Dicillo, Antonio Montinaro and Vito Schifani.
Salvatore 'Salvino' Madonia, Cosimo Lo Nigro, Giorgio
Pizzo, Lorenzo Tinnirello, and Vittorio Tutino played key roles
in organizing the hit and acquiring the half-ton of explosives
used to blow up Falcone and the other victims, prosecutors said.
The explosives were placed in a culvert under the motorway
between Palermo International Airport and the city of Palermo,
at the exit to the town of Capaci.
They were detonated by remote control, causing a blast so
powerful it registered on local earthquake monitors.
Mafia 'boss of bosses' Toto Riina was arrested in 1993 and
convicted of ordering the hit. He is currently serving 12 life
sentences for the Falcone assassination and a number of other
crimes.
Caltanissetta City Prosecutor Lia Sava said the State
intends to keep investigating and to bring charges in a third
trial over the Falcone assassination.
"We will continue to seek the truth," she said. "We have a
moral and juridical obligation to do so, because we know that
surely not everything has been dealt with in the current
proceedings".
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